Edward Said: his thought as a novel

✍ Scribed by Dominique Edde

• Book ID: 100088581
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 143 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0231140053

✦ Synopsis

An intimate account of Edward Sa id's life and thought
Edward Said is a personal, literary portrait of one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars, written by his close friend and confidante. Here, Lebanese novelist and essayist Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most famous texts, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism.
Edde weaves together accounts of the genesis and content of Said's work, his intellectual development, and her own reflections and personal recollections of their friendship, which began in 1979 and lasted until Said's death in 2003. In this intimate and searching portrait of Said's thought, Edde continues to maintain their dialogue despite his death, trying to make peace with the loss of a collaborator with whom she still wants to talk and disagree.
Bringing together personal reflection and...